Flooding eases at Urana but continues on the Billabong Creek

The State Emergency Service has spent the night monitoring flooded creeks around Urana, Rand and Walbundrie.

Two homes were flooded by the Urangeline Creek at Urana yesterday and another four were surrounded by water.

30 students were evacuated from the town's St Frances Xavier School because of rising waters.

The SES is also watching the flooded Billabong Creek around Rand and Walbundrie, and is closely monitoring several dams in the area.

The Murray Region Controller, Elizabeth Kirkwood said the area received half its average yearly rainfall at the weekend.

"We're talking about 200 millimetre plus falls in that area," said Ms Kirkwood.

"So we have dams overflowing, we have roads underwater from those dams overflowing, now we're adding water that's come from upstream going downstream which is turning it into a bit of an inland sea as well."

Some locals have been critical of the information they have received about the flooding, saying they didn't know of the flood threat until just before it hit.

Ms Kirkwood said the lack of flood gauges made it hard to predict river peaks.

She said SES crews door knocked vulnerable properties yesterday, but the flooding has been hard to track.

"It's a very visual thing that we are doing at the moment, we are looking at the creek and doing a visual, yes it's still rising or it's falling."

"It's very hard it makes predicting what's going to happen difficult at best and it becomes extremely difficult in the evening," said Ms Kirkwood.